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Mohawk Buys Synthetic & Paper Supplier Bravo Solutions

(News | New Products)

August 15, 2011, ...  According to Thomas D. O’Connor Jr., Mohawk’s chairman and CEO, “This acquisition is a strategic opportunity for Mohawk and its customers.  We are committed to expanding our offerings to the growing ...

Education Training: School's in Sessio

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2011, ... a week in the summer from Clemson's Dept. of Graphic Communications, where Dr. Sam T. Ingram is chair and professor. Ingram's department runs combination webinars once a week in the summer with both students ...

Experience Speaks: Myron Geiser

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2011, General Manager of Capri Packaging How did you get into the converting business? Schreiber Foods, a customer-brand dairy company, was challenged with General Manager of Capri Packaging How did ...

Drives Motors: From Zero to 800

(Label/Tape)

June 30, 2011, ... installed in a 40-ft Circonix Container Drive system (CCD). The CCD is a steel shipping container used as a drive house and is custom-fitted with two access doors, a 220 VAC lighting system, air conditioning, ...

Change Cartridge Quickly

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, ... has upper slitters that are air-loaded against bottom knife anvils. Bottom slitter rings are positioned laterally across air shaft that is driven by an AC motor. Maxson Automatic Machinery Co. | 401-596-0162 ...

Monster Energy Drink Gets Military Decoration

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

May 24, 2011, ... by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) and other military logistic operations throughout the US in addition to bases in Europe, the Pacific, and the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq. The cans ...

TLMI Announces Eugene Singer Award Winners

(Label/Tape News)

March 31, 2011, ... Springs, CA: • Centennial, CO-based Columbine Label Co. won in the small company category for the first time. The small company category is defined by annual sales of less than $6 million.  • Fairfield, ...

Service Makes the Sale

(Flexography)

March 31, 2011, ... to mention that Bison also is a very green company. “We recycle as much as we can to reduce our carbon footprint, including solvents, film, corrugated, and so on. We use variable speed air compressors ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2011, ... and communicate the smooth chocolatey nature of the rich éclair brownie product. Uflex provides the substrate, rotogravure printing, plasma metallization (for improved barrier properties), laminating, ...

Recorded Live at Converters Expo!

(Yo's Yarns)

March 19, 2011, On March 3, I visited Converters Expo in Green Bay, WI. It was held at Lambeau Field, home of the Super Bowl XLXV Champions. It was a little scarry to enter Packer territory for this Bear fan, but visiting ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... nature of the interior rich éclair brownie product. Uflex provides the substrate, rotogravure printing, plasma metallization (for improved barrier properties), laminating, and slitting. A die-punched ...

Reporter

(Magazine)

January 31, 2011, ... Hanita Coatings chooses Hutchison Miller Sales, New Britain, PA, as its representative in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. Omnova Solutions, Fairlawn, OH, increases prices ...

Web Cleaning: To Contact or Not?

(Web Cleaning)

January 31, 2011, ... effectively a web cleaner must break up the boundary layer of air that is entrained by the moving web, holding contamination firmly to the substrate's surface (any fast moving object will create a boundary ...

TLMI Honors Best Converter & Supplier

(Yo's Yarns)

October 28, 2010, ... of the Year among many label award accolades. John Hickey, CEO of Smyth Cos., Inc., St. Paul, MN, and past TLMI chairman of the board, was selected Converter of the Year–an honor awarded by package PRINTING’s ...

Static Beat: Prevent Winter Static

(Static Elimination)

September 30, 2010, Static becomes worse in the winter when heating systems operate. Cold air holds less moisture than warm air. So, the relative humidity of heated air is Static becomes worse in the winter when heating systems ...

Pilot Coaters: Small Volume, Big Advances

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... benchtop has not changed fundamentally for many decades. Typically a 1-2-sq-ft sheet is coated using a doctor device such as a die, blade, or Mayer rod. The sample then is dried with ambient air on a benchtop, ...

Plastics Recycling: Reclaim & Reuse

(Coating/Laminating)

August 31, 2010, ... throughout the world. Mark Daniels, Hilex Poly VP of marketing and environmental affairs, says, “We knew EREMA equipment and were comfortable with it and especially appreciated how easily our older ...

Show Previews: Three To Go

(Trends/Management)

August 31, 2010, ...  For more information, visit www.graphexpo.com. It's K Time K 2010, the 18th Intl. Trade Fair for Plastics + Rubber, by Messe Düsseldorf in Germany, takes place at the Düsseldorf Fairgrounds October ...

Labels and a Whole Lot More

(Label/Tape)

July 31, 2010, ... even a Masterclass by Mike Fairley on the how-to of digital label printing, and lots more. Technological innovation and creativity is what inspired the beginning of this industry, and it's what will ...

Pressure-Sensitive Coating: Ready & Able

(Label/Tape)

July 31, 2010, When Lou Guzzetti took over as chairman and CEO of what was then Spinnaker Industries in spring 2001, what he was stepping into wasn't exactly a bed of When Lou Guzzetti took over as chairman and CEO of ...